I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
MATSUO BASHOHow much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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